Preston merchants offer fair prices amid rising costs
In urging fair pricing, Preston merchants claim they set prices to reflect current wages, debt, taxes, and costs, arguing they never exploit consumers and that local shoppers benefit from consistent, honest advertising and square dealing. The piece also weighs President Truman's anti-Communist purge, warning of a potential witch hunt and praising the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover for impartial, thorough background checks.
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Preston
Preston Merchant
Nazi
Germany
Russia
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Law and Order
Georgia Restores Democratic Rule After State Government Turmoil
An Atlanta newspaper exposed vote fraud surrounding Herman Talmadge, helping Georgians restore democratic governance. The piece praises the state’s return to democratic rule and highlights the role of a free press in uncovering fraud and thwarting gang influence. It argues lessons for the nation, noting regional differences between the South and North.
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Supreme Court of
State of
Georgia
Atlanta
Herman Talmadge
Humorous Bits and Banter From Everyday Sights
A collection of light vignettes and jokes featuring a Sunday school teacher, an astrologer, an Irish traveler, a telegraph flattery expert, cross-cultural humor at a banquet, army maneuvers involving Mrs Brown, a playful list of role-based traits, a control tower quip, a parking lot misunderstanding, Swiss village population gaffe, and a thermometer misread by a worried wife.
Abnormal market slows Smithfield pea plant operations
The Smithfield plant of the Morgan Canning company, the world’s largest pea factory, will idle this season due to market overproduction. In a Preston high school cross country meet, Fairview pupils competed with Richard Smith winning, followed by Lennis Hall and the Bodily brothers. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Grant Dockstader of Mink Creek in March. George L Hossfield, famed for typing at 146 words a minute, visited Preston this week. Sarah Goff won the retold story contest for girls, Lealand Mecham for the boys, under MIA of the first ward. WPA workers are now on Idaho projects.
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Smithfield
Morgan Canning Company
Preston High School
Fairview
Richard Smith
Lennis Hall
Dick Bodily
Robert Bodily
Sarah Goff
Mia
First Ward
Lealand Mecham
Beets Seasonal Work Projected This Year
Farmers expect assignments filled for beet fields and other agricultural tasks. Local births include twins to Mr and Mrs Bill Poole and a baby boy for Mr and Mrs George Bennett. A welcome home for Jim Paton returns from a mission. A Clifton fire destroyed Bry ant Winward's home while the Winwards were away. Clifton couple Mr and Mrs Willis Choules celebrate a baby girl born at the local hospital.
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Bill Poole
Bryant Winward
Clifton
Idaho Milk Production Dips From 1945 Peak
Idaho farms produced 1.261 billion pounds of milk in 1946, 7 percent below 1945 but above pre-1941 totals. Record remains 1944 at 1.405 billion. Cow numbers fell to about 213,000, while per cow output reached 5,920 pounds, second highest on record.
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Idaho
Home garden veg production boosts buying power
A columnist argues that growing vegetables in a back garden is an easy and worthwhile way to increase buying power today. The piece promotes self sufficiency and daily harvests from home plots.
Harris Urges Prompt Fire Department Call
A terse exchange shows one person urging Harris that it is too late and recommending calling the fire department, implying a dangerous or urgent incident.
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Harris
Fire Department
Parting Shot Poem Reduces Living Ahead of Time
A terse verse presents two to live as cheap as one with conditions of no clothes and not eating, a stark, economical riff on shared fate and sacrifice. The lines imply a bleak bargain, focusing on restraint and mutual survival in a minimalist life.
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Cache Valley -Clarion
Don E. Smith
Belva Hart
Blanche Hollingsworth
Afechapical
Lelana ‘Chatterton
Shirley Chatterton
Ott Chatterton
Vern Morris
Franklin
Onal Editorial
Associatio
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Truman
Ethel
Shure
Far East
Panhandlers
Drdafoe
Grant Dockstader
Mink Creek
George L. Hossfield
WPA
Tdaho
Joe Marsha
Jeb Crowell
Jeb
Lud Denny
Lud
United States Brewers Foundation
Second Ward
Jim Paton
George Bennett
Winder
Prestor Hospital
Preston Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States
Ene Roe
Gil
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Hali Security
Corporation
A Mersedr
Federal Reserve System
Chicago, Il
New York
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Washington, D. C
Kansas City
Denver
Wilford
Greyhound
Union Pacific Stages, Inc
Joe Ransom
McCune Motor Company
Preston Ford
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